Make Instance Groups searchable/filterable
Hello,
We'd like to request some more usage for instance groups. Right now, it's just not very useful to group instances on a datasource. We have shared devices with datasources belonging to ...
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mnagel
Professor
ProfessorI just spent a lot of time beating my head on this, and found the problem is that instance groups are not really groups, they are just stored as labels on instances. As such, they themselves have no place to store additional information, like device groups can. In addition to the above desirable features, it should be possible to set alert expressions on instance groups that are persistent (like for device groups). I ended up dealing with the latter issue via the API, so now I can do this:
./lm-set-alertexpr --company mycompany --devicegroup "All Exchange Servers" --datasource "WinVolumeUsage-" --datapoint "PercentUsed" --instancegroup "MailboxDB" --instancegroupop '!:' -v -n --alertexpr "> 90 95 99"
So at least some issues can be resolved via the API, but alert routing via instance group is definitely needed! Anywhere an instance can be used, an instancegroup should be also possible, definitely.
Regards,
Mark
